activity
20242026
collaborators

12 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Demonstration of a Single-Laser-Diode-Pumped Ti:Sapphire Astrocomb on the Southern African Large Telescope

Ewan Allan, Yuk Shan Cheng, Kamalesh Dadi +13

Astrocombs -- broadband lasers comprising thousands of narrow, uniformly spaced and atomically-referenced spectral lines -- offer gold-standard wavelength calibration for ground-ba…

physics.optics2026

Toward nanophotonic platforms for solid-state Th nuclear clocks

Sandro Kraemer, Karen Mamian, Toby Bi +18

While the Th nuclear isomer has recently been observed and laser-excited, converting optical nuclear manipulation into a chip-scale solid-state frequency standard remains a…

physics.optics2026

Fourth-harmonic UV light generation in integrated silicon nitride microresonators

Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal, Haochen Yan +6

Integrated silicon nitride (Si3N4) resonators have emerged as a leading platform for nonlinear photonics, yet generating light at wavelength in the ultraviolet (UV) has remained el…

physics.optics2026

Visible octave frequency combs in silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguides driven by Ti:sapphire lasers

Abdullah Alabbadi, Ewan Allan, Hanna Ostapenko +3

Nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides have opened a route to compact frequency combs for precision metrology, spectroscopy and astronomy, yet broadband comb access to the visible remai…

physics.optics2026

Color symmetry breaking in a nonlinear optical microcavity

Luca O. Trinchão, Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal +8

Spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to diverse phenomena across the natural sciences, from the Higgs mechanism in particle physics to superconductors and collective animal behavior…

physics.optics2025

Inverse-Designed Silicon Nitride Nanophotonics

Toby Bi, Shuangyou Zhang, Egemen Bostan +12

Silicon nitride photonics has enabled integration of a variety of components for applications in linear and nonlinear optics, including telecommunications, optical clocks, astrocom…